Inside a data center, 123NET believes your choice of a carrier should not be limited to the data center owner. We make it as easy as possible for new carriers to build into our data centers. Opening the doors to more carriers greatly benefits businesses looking for more robust, diverse networks.
What Does Carrier Neutral Mean?
Having more options is a good thing. A carrier-neutral data center often referred to as a carrier hotel, is a facility that offers its customers the ability to purchase connectivity from any carrier in the building. Since these facilities are independent of providers, customers are open to many more carrier options. There are several factors that make carrier-neutral facilities more desirable than their carrier-affiliated counterparts.
Diversity
Keeping your network running 24/7 is critical. Having carrier diversity, meaning multiple carriers connected to your business’s network, provides a backup option if a single carrier experiences an outage. Carrier hotels have a major advantage in that they support carrier diversity, whereas single provider data centers are less able to.
Cost-Effective
Using a carrier-neutral facility can naturally lower the price of services through competition. When there are fewer options to choose from, customers are more likely to settle for higher prices. Moving to a new data center can be a costly and time-consuming process, so selecting a carrier-neutral data center allows competition to keep costs low, without having to move to change providers.
Internet Exchange Connectivity
Carrier-neutral data centers can also host internet exchanges. Internet exchanges allow enterprise, service providers, and carrier networks to peer with one another, lowering latency, network hops, and costs.
123NET has four, Tier 3, carrier-neutral data center facilities and hosts the Detroit Internet Exchange (DET-IX), a not-for-profit regional exchange point in Michigan. To learn more about 123NET’s data centers, take a virtual tour, or schedule a live data center tour, visit our colocation data center page for more information!
